The Fall of the House of Usher Group

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marcopolo7039
marcopolo7039
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High School - 11th Grade

What evidence can you find that the narrator's state of mind may be deteriorating?

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Posted by marcopolo7039 on Sunday April 19, 2009 at 6:47 PM and tagged with narrator, state of mind.

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  1. herappleness
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    For once, he enters the house (that's an allegory to a brush or future brush with your inner fears and insanity). Then, after he experiences the shock of the first look of his friend and the house, he starts becoming uneasy. Seems as if Roderick is slowly starting to enthrall him into his own state of mind, as the narrator then starts losing sleep at night. When the sister dies, you see how he goes along with the idea of burying her in the household cemetery. After the vision of the sister happens in the end (which we do not know if was an actual vision or the sister crawling out of her grave) the narrator saw the same thing and as he ran the house fell right behind him. Seems as if the whole thing is an explanation of a journey into insanity.

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    http://www.enotes.com/fall-house

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    Posted by herappleness on Tuesday May 5, 2009 at 3:09 PM